Can I upgrade from 7.10 to 10.04 without burning a CD?

[tc101]

I have an old computer currently running release 7.10, Gutsy. Can I upgrade to 10.04 without burning a CD?

If I must burn a CD, is there a version that will fit on a 700MB CD? Those are the only ones I have here.

[viking350]

what is the exact model of your computer?

[Raymond2201]

The Ubuntu Installer is 699.4 mg ;)

[tc101]

what is the exact model of your computer?

A friend built it years ago, then we upgraded it. It is no model.

[tc101]

The Ubuntu Installer is 699.4 mg

I copied it to my hard drive and it says it is 716,230 KB

[nmaster]

does your firmware support booting from a usb? do you have a spare usb flash drive? if so, take a look at this:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick

[tc101]

does your firmware support booting from a usb? do you have a spare usb flash drive? if so, take a look at this:


No. This is an old computer. It has no USB sockets. It was old when I installed 7.10. It runs fine though and i thought I would see what it did with 10.04.

[helicase]

I copied it to my hard drive and it says it is 716,230 KB
The installer is made to fit on a cd (a cd can actually hold a bit more than 700MB), so you should be fine burning the image you've got on your hard drive.

The official way without a cd would be to upgrade to 8.04 first (which is a long term support version) and from there to 10.04.

[norseman-has-a-laptop]

i never used gutsy but if i know ubuntu the update manager should give you an opision to upgrade thats how i went from 9.04 to 10.04

[tc101]

I went to update manage and it offered to upgrade to 8.04, which I am now doing. I guess after that I can do update manager again and it will take me to 10.04. I made a CD of 10.04 just in case.

[tc101]

I am surprised at how slow the download is to do the upgrade. I did a speed test and my download speed 2-3 MBS, but at times the download to upgrade from 7.10 to 8.04 was running as slow as 44KBS.